Adult Braille Books – Non-fiction
Biography
BR74397
Almost like a song by Ronnie Milsap with Tom Carter.
4 v. of braille.
Taken in by dirt-poor but loving grandparents after his mother rejected him, Ronnie was soon sent off to a school for the blind. There, among other things, he learned discipline, determination, and classical music - acquirements that shaped his boyhood, his career, and his success as a country music superstar. His inspiring story reveals little-known aspects of the music industry where he rose to the top. 1990.
Top
Business
BR74482
Get smarter: life and business lessons for the 20- to 40-year-old by Seymour Schulich.
2 v. of braille.
In examining his own life, Seymour Schulich, a Canadian billionaire and philanthropist, realized that at age 20, and even at age 30, he knew very little. This is his attempt to impart lessons learned in a lifetime to today's youth, by someone who has achieved success in both his personal and professional life. Covers such issues as how to make a decision, choosing a career, and how to deal with adversity. 2007.
Top
Social Problems
BR74626
In the realm of hungry ghosts: close encounters with addiction by Gabor Maté.
6 v. of braille.
Maté describes his patients while looking to the root causes of addiction, applying a clinical and psychological view to the physical manifestation and offering some answers for why people inflict such catastrophe on themselves. He takes aim at the ineffectual War on Drugs, and shows how measures such as safe injection sites are more successful at reducing drug-related crime and the spread of disease than anything most governments are doing. Strong language. 2008.
Top
Social Sciences
BR73909
The upside of down: catastrophe, creativity, and the renewal of civilization by Thomas Homer-Dixon.
7 v. of braille.
From the fall of the Roman empire to the devastation of the 9/11 attacks, from Toronto in the 2003 blackout to the ancient temples of Lebanon, Homer-Dixon argues that the great stresses our world is experiencing - global warming, energy scarcity, population imbalances, and widening gaps between rich and poor - can't be looked at independently. As these stresses combine and converge, the risk of breakdown rises. However, we can use our emerging understanding of the complex systems in which we live to avoid catastrophic collapse in a way the Roman empire could not. c2006.
Top
Sports and Recreation
BR74546
McCown's law: the 100 greatest hockey arguments by Bob McCown with David Naylor.
4 v. of braille.
Sports talk-radio personality Bob McCown isn't afraid to say what's on his mind. His hockey opinions include: The Leafs haven't won the Stanley Cup in 40 years for a perfectly logical reason: they have the crappiest players; it's time the law put hockey's most violent offenders in something more restrictive than the penalty box; and Slovakia, not Canada, just may be the greatest hockey nation on Earth. 2007.
Top